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(No Model.)

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. HOLLOW SPINDLE FOR- DYEING YARN IN com. 1%. 408.667.

Patented Aug. 6, 1889 N. PETERS. Phnlo-Lilhognpbcr. Wnhiuglom D. C.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

IRA F. BECK, OF PROVIDENCE, ASSIGNOR TO I. F. & F. C. SAYLES, OF PAW- TUCKET, RHODE ISLAND.

HOLLOW SPINDLE FOR DY EING YARN IN COPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,667, dated August 6, 1889. Application filed February 20, 1889. Serial No. 300,590. (No model.)

To CLZZ whom it' may concern.- I shown in Fig. l, the flange being held be- Be it known that I, IRA F. PECK, a citizen tween the nut (l and the seat 6. The ribs ff of the United States, residing at Providence, f extend from the end of the tube 1) to the in the State of Rhode Island, have invented terminating tip 9 ofthe spindle, and are supa new and useful Improvement in Hollow ported against lateral pressure by means of Spindles for Dyeing Yarn in Oops, of which the spirally-wound wire coil h, between the the following is a specification. coils of which at the spaces a between the The object of my invention is to provide a ribs f the dyeing-liquor will be made to pass cheaply-constructed and highly-efficient holto color the yarn of the cop F, the wire h i0 low spindle for the purpose of dyeing yarn in serving to support the cop against inward 5o cops by the forced passage of the dyeing-liqpressure and to divide the space a into a seuor either outward from the hollow spindle or ries of openings j, which division and supinward to the same through the body of the port are the gist of my improvement. cop; and it consists in the employment of lon- The ribs f may be of any desirable number,

.5 gitudinal ribs and an inner wire support three ribs being shown in the drawings; and adapted to form suitable openings to the tubuinstead of making the body of the hollow lar portion of the spindle, as hereinafter fully spindle from a sheet-metal blank, as shown in set forth. v Fig. 2, the same can be made from a tube Z) Figure 1 represents a plan view of a sheetand a terminating tip g, which are connected 20 metal blank from which the outer surface of to each other by means of the attached wire my improved hollow spindle may be formed. ribs fff, as shown in Fig. 5; but I prefer to Fig. 2 represents an elevation of my improved make the body of the spindle in one piece, as hollow spindle. Fig. 3 represents a transbefore described. verse section of the same, taken in the line a: By my improvement I am able to construct 25 03 of Fig.2. Fig. 4 represents a longitudinal a hollow spindle having desirable strength section of the spindle mounted for use. Fig. and durability with a comparatively large 5 represents a modification in which the atarea of openings for the passage of the liquor taching-tube, terminating tip, and the ribs are supplied for dyeing the yarn in the cop which separately formed. surrounds the spindle, and through which the 30 In the accompanying drawingsArepresents dyeing-liquor is to be forced by suitable a sheetrmetal blank provided with the longimeans. tudinal openings at a, and from which the I claim as my inventionbody of the spindle is formed, the said blank The hollow spindle having a tube adapted being folded or rolled so as to form a tube (9, for attachment, the terminating tip, the 1011- 35 Fig. 2, by means of which the spindle can be gitudinal ribs, and the inner wire coil, subattached to the pipes or vessels through which stantially as and for the purpose specified.

the dyeing-liquor is made to pass, the said IRA F. PEGK. tube being preferably provided with the \Vitnesseszflange c, by means of which the spindle can SOCRATES SCHOLFIELD,

0 be firmly held in its working position, as JOHN S. LYNCH. 

